Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1940 Colt Official Police shipped to the government of Iceland on March 21, 1940 as part of an 80-revolver order through John Olafsson & Company in Reykjavik. The timing is significant – this was one year into WWII, one month befor...
Specialized equipment often reflects very specific mission requirements, and few examples are as niche as the modified Smith & Wesson Model 41 pistols issued for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird pilot survival kits.
The Kentucky General Assembly has successfully overrode Governor Andy Beshear’s vetoes of House Bill 78 and House Bill 312, enacting significant new protections for the firearms industry and expanding carry rights for young adults. The decisive votes on April 14, 2026, codify liability shields ...
If you have always wanted a 1903A3 rifle to use as a shooter, you may be in luck! The Civilian Marksmanship Program is now selling reclaimed 1903A3 Springfield bolt-action rifles . These guns use receivers salvaged from guns that were, at one time, non-fireable, but now are back in action.
My very first handgun was a Springfield Armory XD in 9mm. It was around 2007, I was shopping for a home-defense solution and I’d read positive reviews about the XD line in American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo magazines. At decision time, it wasn’t much of a competiti...
We recently covered the Canadian military's adoption of a new carbine, the CMAR . That announcement was shortly followed by word that a Colt scope would round out the package: the CMAR 1-6 . Colt's new line of civilian optics has now been released, so we can take a look at what th...
FN America is changing things up in the pistol dot world at NRAAM 2026 with the new FN Pureview, the first holographic pistol dot to hit the market. This is a fully enclosed holographic dot that uses FN’s proprietary ImageGuide technology to create the holographic projection on a single fla...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Remington Model 1861 Navy percussion revolver manufactured circa 1862, one of about 6,000 produced. Traces of a cartouche remain on the left grip panel, indicating military acceptance. The Model 1861 was Remington’s .36 caliber Navy-si...
Handgun-mounted red dot sights have been around for a long time. I was first exposed to them in the late ’90s mounted on USPSA Open guns. These flat-shooting, compensated, red dot-adorned pistols ran fast when they were running, and Open shooters were most often at the top of the list at the en...
The DOJ’s new Second Amendment enforcement effort is now colliding with Virginia’s 2026 gun control package, as Harmeet Dhillon warns the state could face federal litigation over unconstitutional firearm restrictions.